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By Jimmy Ellingham of RNZ Three soldiers suffered burns during a training exercise using Molotov cocktails to prepare them for peacekeeping duties. Two w
Three soldiers suffered burns to their bodies during a training exercise using molotov cocktails to prepare them for peacekeeping duties.
WorkSafe has charged the Defence Force after an incident involving Molotov cocktails left soldiers in hospital with burns.
”The risk of harm to our community, our law enforcement personnel is utterly obvious ... I need you to understand there must be consequences of a significant nature,” he said. ”A whole series of pistols are out there capable of inflicting serious harm to law enforcement people ... and the general public. ”They are lost and we can only assume they are in use. I consider that is a huge aggravating factor, the whole safety of our community is put at risk with the distribution of firearms to the black market.” Across an eight-page summary of facts police detailed the simple way McRa...
Five years‘ jail for convicted gun supplier The man was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court today. File photo. '); } else { // } A Taupō methamphetamine dealer who supplied firearms to the criminal underworld has been jailed for five years and four months. Gordon Mark McRae, 34, received the sentence at Rotorua District Court on Wednesday after earlier pleading guilty to a raft of gun and drugs charges including supplying firearms to unlicensed persons, possession of a pistol, conspiring to possess a firearm and supply of methamphetamine. Before handing dow...